Back to matchesWe found a matchYour institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.TitleHuman leukocyte and fibroblast interferons are structurally related.AuthorsTaniguchi, Tadatsugu; Mantei, Ned; Schwarzstein, Marco; Nagata, Shigekazu; Muramatsu, Masami; Weissmann, CharlesAbstractThe coding sequences of the cDNAs of cloned human leukocyte interferon I and human fibroblast interferon show homologies of 45% at the nucleotide and 29% at the amino acid level. We conclude that the two genes were derived from a common ancestor.PublicationNature, 1980, Vol 285, Issue 5766, p547ISSN0028-0836Publication typeArticleDOI10.1038/285547a0